it is a commitment that nasa, nasa is going to lead the pack. we've commercial getting the crew to the space station. that's great. we are committed to other parts of our science in nasa, but the leader is going to be the launch system that is being announced today, and the next thing that senator nelson and autrey and senator boozman and congresswoman johnson, congressman hall, everyone who cares about the vision for america to lead in space is going to be the timetable. the timetable for the contracts to start being modified so that our experienced people will be kept to help modify and design the vehicle that will take us beyond earth's orbit. so the timetable will be what i'm looking for i want to see the contract modify it right away, and i am told by all of those who can make it happen that we are in fact weeks away maybe one or two weeks away from modifying the contract and assuring that we are going to have the experience to take us to the next level. so, i am very pleased to be here today, and a half really a new beginning and that is w

and nasa has pinpointed exactly where the satellite will fall, jim? >> engineers now expect it will break into 100 pieces on reentry, a quarter of those could make it to earth. nasa is pretty sure that any surviving pieces of the satellite will fall somewhere between 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south. (laughter) >> stephen: okay. so the evacuation zone-- (applause) >> stephen: the evacuation zone is this area. (laughter) right here. if you are one of the 6 billion thrill seek ares in the impact zone, you will want to flee to the safety of either antarctica or the norwegian island of svalbarg,. and folks don't worry, because you have plenty of time to get there because in addition to providing a 28 hour impact window across 118 million square mile danger zone, nasa is providing a 20 minute warning before the satellite strikes. (laughter) more than enough time to make it to antarctica provided that you are an emerer penguin. now if for some reason you are unwilling or unable to evacuate the habitable zone of the earth and the satellite crashes near

y la nasa advierte que falta poco para que caiga en alguna parte de la tierra restos de un satÉlite erran te, este es su noticiero univision, con jorge ram ramos y marÍa elena salinas. hay cosas pasando hoy, pero la noticia es la idea la poderosa idea que palestina se convierta en un paÍs independiente esto presentado en naciones unidas. sin embargo, estados unidos, e israel creen que antes que declarar el estado palestino tiene que haber platicas de paz entre judÍos y palestinos. > >>>... la ofensiva palestina mÁs grande de los Últimos aÑos, el lÍder palestino entregÓ una solicitud para el ingreso de palestino como estado con pleno derecho, es el primer paso para tratar de que la comunidad internacional reconozca un estado palestino. construir puentes de diÁlogos en vez de muros de separaciÓn, dijo israel en un discurso interrumpido por aplausos. estos son los principales obstÁculos a la paz dijo. por su parte el primer ministro israelÍ dijo que no habia venido a ganar aplausos si no, a decir la verdad y que palestinos quieren un estado sin paz. >>> esta movida unilateral cor

you're nasa! >> we've not go no alien plans. >> where nasa steps down, mufon steps up. >> our star team are trained field investigators will that are able to be deployed within 24 hours to a significant u.f.o. event. usually they're retired because all of our people are volunteers wyatt. >> but to pull even with china, mufon can't do it alone. >> nasa's mission is to... it's really for the better. of humankind. >> but do you have a star team? >> no, but... >> do you have geiger counters and old people to use them? >> no, we don't have geiger counters and old people to use them. >> wow. yeah. i can see why they cut your funding. nasa just had nothing to offer. cenac to beam up. cenac out. what a piece of (bleep). (laughter) but too get america back on track. even mufon would have to overcome a few obstacles. >> we don't understand how they commune ate. if we had that ability then we could say, hey, guys, come on down, we want to talk to you. >> fortunately, i knew someone who could help. >> hello,

that is my very pro-nasa speech. i hope that we find a mission to mars. >> what was nasa's response. >> they were not happy. they were embarrassed. a guy from the inside. there were not thrilled and did not want me to make him into a hero. all these sorts of things, but i feel like they have not responded. so when people there read the book i feel like they will love it because i think it makes nasa look cool and will hopefully get people to want to be involved. i think it will like it, but i thought facebook would like the social network. eventually they did come around to it. you know, it is not a hit job on nasa, that is for sure. >> one last question, and then we will call it an evening. yes, ma'am. right in the middle. [inaudible question] >> dad did the crime with a girlfriend and another girl and took the fall. he is the only one who was involved that went to jail. the girls did not. the approbation and never spoke again. it was sad. they had known each other three weeks. >> love. when he was in the court room

nasa is going to the moon. you'll see the launch live, if it happens, looks like the weather is going to help out. so, stay with us for the launch. >>> all right. 27 minutes past the hour. it's been nearly ten years since the terrorist attacks on the u.s. on 9/11. tomorrow ceremonies will be held to remember those who were killed. you don't have to wait to tomorrow to reflect on the events of 9/11. mario armstrong joins me from baltimore. i haven't talked to you in a while. good to see you. technology helping people -- >> good to see you. >> make a personal connection to 9/11. how does this work? >> it's working through apps. that's the easiest way to get many people, as much as possible, to be able to go through their different feelings their different emotions and really educational history about these events. we got a couple apps to share with folks. the first one is called explorer 9/11. explore 9/11. these are free apps you can download from the itunes store and android marketplace. this is created by the

nasa is working with the strategic command for confirmation. john alston is at the space and science center for us. john? >> carolyn, what nasa is saying, if it came down when they think it came down between 8:45 and 9:45 tonight, it most likely landed somewhere in canada. they are watching it on computer websites that were uh -- apparently slowed down by so many people wanting to witness the final moments of the spacecraft. >> reporter: at the science center they were celebrating the discovery of nep few -- neptune so many years ago. >> it has passed to the south of us. it is heading in the northeast direction. >> reporter: 8:00 p.m., astronomers noticed the satellite was over north america on one of its last lapse over earth. >> over time the orbit slowly daw grades.-- degrades. the best example of something like that where we prevented it is the hubble. >> the window of when and where it would crash kept on changing as the day went on. >> solar activity has been causing the earth's atmosphere to pump up and then settle down. that changes the

nasa hopes to keep it that way come friday -- or saturday. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> we hope you are all in for the night. that's our broadcast for this monday evening. thank you for being here with us as we begin a new week. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. thanks for joining us on this monday. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. we want to take you here live to the east bay. fire fighters are working to control flames burning at the edge of lake shaboe. al meeta county fire still trying to figure out exactly how to get the ground crews through what is very rugged terrain there. u

nasa's satellite came crashing down overnight and nasa doesn't know exactly where it crashed. it did says it re-entered the atmosphere somewhere over the pacific ocean. don't know where it is. if it landed in your yard, you think it's somewhere around, we'd love to hear about it. let me show you the video of it coming down. this comes to us from our affiliate in san antonio, texas. you see that dot. yes, we've been building up for the past week to this satellite crashing to bring you a dot. that's supposedly a piece of the space debris there or it could be somebody playing with a flashlight in a tree in the distance. we didn't know where, from the u.s., hawaii, philippines, new zealand, everybody claims to have seen this come down. >> dots can be compelling. it is true. i was compelled and i'm compelled to show you video that might be more spectacular, this from the great state of hawaii. we have a smoky streak across the sky. could it be, might it be? we dust noepts he. we have no idea as to whether it is or not. these do not have tracking devices on them. as they enter, we h

. >> and nasa had oscar winning john knowles in the house. a real planet orbiting two suns. >> the indication of what is possible, something entirely new. >> one that literally opens a universe of possibilities for finding earth like planets according to the team. >> half the stars in the sky you look at are binary doubles the potential. >> they have been looking at 156,000 stars in a gay si with more than a billion of them. they have found hundreds of planets by changing of brightness of those stars when planets pass between them and earth. we know this new planet kepler 16-about is a gas giant orbiting two suns, one smaller and one larger. life as we know it could not exist there but what a view it must have. >> you have not just the sun going across the sky but you have it moving with another star. >> nasa may need to hand out more star war clips soon. >>> i think scientists believe the temperature there is about hundred below zero. >> its gas giant like jupiter in our system which wouldn't sustain life. 4:46, from mortgage to credit card

. >> nasa calls it kepler 16-b. a new class of planet. >> the reality is, it's cooler than fiction. >> hear from the guys that were responsible for the special effects on "star wars." >> we do these odd fantasy things that have tenuous routes in plausibility. to see the science is odder than we imagined, and that this sort of thing could be real is great. >> reporter: another benefit of kepler's discovery, the new kind of planetary system, increasing the chances of finding life elsewhere. >> we know there have been planets around single stars now we know there are planets around double stars. there are a lot of double stars out there, if there are well look into that. >> all this like star wars is taking place far away, some 200 light-years from earth. but really encouraging to the mission, which says it will try to keep exploring to find more planets and more suns. >> very interesting discovery. >>> netflix raised its prices, now the company is lowering investor's expectations. the company has dropped its projectio

how did george lucas know about this before nasa. >> i don't think he did. >>reporter: and yet nasa had oscar winning john knoll in the house today as it announced a major discovery. first confirmation of a real planet orbiting 2 suns. binary plane planet. >> indication of what is possible. something entirely new. >>reporter: one that literally opens a universe of possibility for finding earth like planet according to the team. >> half the stars in the sky you lack at are binary, double the number of potential habi habitable planet. >>reporter: the telescope is looking at only a small portion of the sky. 156,000 stars in a galaxy with more than 1 billion of them. already found hnss of planets by detecting changes of brightness of this is stars when planets pass between them and earth. we know that this new planet keepler 16 b twice00 light years away and gas giant orbiting 2 suns, one smaller, one larger. life as we know it could not exist there. but what a view it must have. >> you have not just the sun going across the sky but you have it moving with anoth

scientists at nasa say it will crossland by next weekend. the trouble is, it is traveling so fast they will not know where it will come down until two hours beforehand. right now the target area covers much of the erse surface. >> it pretty much is in tyre populated world. there is a small percent above those plot -- latitudes but the vast majority of the people on the planet live within those latitudes. >> the threat of satellite scrap is making headlines. >> nasa says a massive satellite is headed for earth. >> most of the satellite will burn up, dozens components are expected to survive reentry. they could pose a risk to life. scientists say the chances are low. one and 3000. decommissioned, the satellite is the latest case of space junk crashing back to earth. a 90 ton skylab space station can down, showering parts across australia. the government was billed four hundred dollars to clean up the debris. nasa will be watching and waiting, hoping the satellite will plunge into the sea. >> and aluminum producer is fined $650 million for a gi

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nasa tells cbs 5 the bright spot of light was above l.a. at 7:45 this evening. a dead research satellite spins helplessly as it begins a fall from orbit that will start on a fiery plunge to earth, 20 years after it was sent to space. >> the rocket science precision that put the satellite up could not accurately predict where it would come down. >> it's coming into the atmosphere and it will drop debris some place on the planet. >> most will burn up in reentry, but some 2600 pieces about 1200 pounds of debris expect to come down. >> brushed on the shoulder and that's the only one we know of that has ever been touched by a piece of raining debris. >> considering how much stuff is up there, that's a good record. >> well, there's 22,000 objects that nasa tracks alone. there are things bigger than a softball. things that they can track. smaller objects, you know, may be millions. >> all of it eventually will fall back to earth. nasa plans for the end times of satellites and ways to minimize its way to earth. >> control reentry and targeting an empty place on earth, s

so for missions we do for nasa, nasa has quite a detailed oversight law and then the faa as well has an oversight role. so if you are comfortable flying commercial aircraft then you should be pretty comfortable with what you we are doing in commercial rocketry. >> and yet with nasa there is obviously any number of tragic events that have occurred where human life was lost and in the sense that obviously they are using private companies as partners, but essentially under the nasa government brand. essentially flying the american flag. can a company like your sustain a loss like that as a private enterprise? would people be willing to give you much dare i say space in the event of a tragedy that they would be? >> i think that will be okay. if you look at other modes of transport, aircraft, boats, carn every mode of transport and if one set a standard that you couldn't have loss of life then there would be no transport. you wouldn't be even allowed to walk. so, you have to allow for some amount of risk and it needs to be reasonable and measured, but you have to allow for that but i don'

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where nasa believes it may have landed. a life long resident is dead tonight hit by a car while using his wheelchair. on his family's search for answers and the driver police are looking for. >> he was kind of like a free spirit all over this town. >> reporter: jim cox is talk about his brother, dave, who was hit and killed as he wheeled himself in his wheelchair in richmond. >> he's gone. it's all over with. >> reporter: there's a flower memorial at the intersection with 34th street today where we found a witness. >> i saw his body on the ground with the wheelchair 30 feet away from his body. >> reporter: she didn't want to appear on camera, but said after the driver hit cox from behind, he took off. >> he try to drive forward, the wheelchair was stuck in the bump, so he -- reversed the car and then turned. >> it could have been an accident, but the fact that the person failed to stop after he hit the victim makes it a crime at this point. so, it's a felony hit-and-run. >> reporter: cox died at the hospital soon after at a

as of this mother, nasa was certain it would miss the u.s. a sudden quieting of solar activity the last 24 hours and you can see in this ultraviolet image. reduced the expect of the earth's atmosphere and reducing the air drag on the satellite. >> and that is making yet difficult to predict. it's a moving target. >> they have done all of this testing on the antiballistic missiles and stuff, why didn't they take it out? >> reporter: pem told us they knew how to prepare for earths but falling satellites? >> i don't know. i have no idea. >> reporter: and late word from nasa is that there is almost zero ridiculous to people on the earth and the latest satellite projects show it will cross over the pacific, australia and some part of north america from 8 to midnight tonight. reporting live sat the science center, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. the two he canners who got engaged while being held in an iranian prison made yet official with a ring and a party and this is a photo from their epgapement ceremony. they were engaged in prison with a ri

all that information is available to nasa and to the faa, submissions are due for nasa, nasa has a detailed oversight role and the faa as well has an oversight role. so if you're comfortable flying commercial aircraft, then you should be pretty comfortable with what we are doing in commercial rocketry. >> with nasa, and there is any number of tragic events, where human life was lost. in the sense they are using private companies or partners, but essentially under the nasa government land, essentially flying the american flag, can a company like yours sustain a loss like that is a private enterprise, would people give you this much dare i say space in the event of a tragedy that they would be their own government? >> yeah, i think that'll be okay. if you look at all of the modes of transport, aircraft, boats, cars, you're familiar with cars. the loss of life in every mode of transport. and if one side is standard issue of lafollette, there'd, there'd be no transport. he would be allowed to what. so you have to allow for some amount of risk. it needs to be a reasonable and measured, but you h

he envisioned that planet orbiting two stars decades before nasa proved it was possible. john knoll is a visual effects supervisor for industrial light and magic. >> every time we think that we're doing something exciting and dramatic and exotic, it's often that the science shows that we're not thinking exotic enough, that the reality is cooler than the fiction. >> reporter: nasa is excited about what the orbiting kepler telescope will found next scanning for more planets. now that nasa has proven that planets can orbit around two suns, they are asking why not three or four? it opens up new research. don ford, cbs 5. who should get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's great. yeah. yeah. kyle's got that thick head of hair. and that should be rewarded. ok, moment of truth. on "three," say which kid you love the most. oh, fun, yeah. 1...2...3... jennifer. jennifer. whoa. wow. ha! she's so pretty. yeah. or, we give it to kyle. it's really all he's got. [ male announcer ] switch to at&t u-verse and record four shows all at the same time. just $29 a month for 6 months. at&t.

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that orbits two suns. >> nasa has taken on a new interest. agriculture. sound kind of strange? >> not too often that your country's space program calls on you for a special mission. especially if you're a farmer. but that's what happened out here for the deloso family. nice to see you. so they called you up and they say, we hear you have one of the top corn mazes in the country every year for halloween. >> yep. >> they said what then? >> they said would you get together with six other farms, seven of us total, and help celebrate all the milestones of the nasa program. >> by designing a maze that commemorates -- >> exactly. >> they're known for the space mission. the design. you to come up with >> this is the kep her telescope that's around the orbit of the sun. it's going around the kepler planetary system. >> getting into this area was very confusing. how hard it is or how easy it is to get lost in these mazes? >> we have three different mazes, one is easy, one is medium and one is hard. they try to find their way out. >> tomorrow you'll hav

can nasa deliver within that time and within that budget? >> well, $3 billion a year, and there had been a lot of fighting between congress and nasa to come up with this number because nasa said there's no way they could do it for what they with were getting in the budget. this is a compromise number. congress appears to be on board and nasa says they can deliver. >> okay, john zarrella, see you in 2017. we'll be doing that together. >> absolutely. >>> let's check some other stories unfolding right now on this wednesday. we are hearing more details about what happened during a courthouse shooting rampage in arkansas. the 48-year-old gunman fired more than 70 shots at this courthouse in van bourne yesterday. he was shot and killed by police and an administrative assistant was injured. many fearful for their lives hid in the building's vault and in the jury room. and for the first time we are hearing the 911 calls. >> police say that the gunman's weapons malfunctioned several times but he kept firing, including firing shots at nearby motorists

the reason we hear about this is because nasa put out a press release. there have been satellites this big falling down a couple of times this year. there is a big satellite with a lot of material on board coming down in a couple of months. this is a german astronomy satellite. this is difficult for many years. this is finally re-entering the atmosphere. nowadays, we make sure that we put engines where they can come down safely. these are really relics left over from the bad old days when people were blase about during people -- throwing things in the sky. >> thank you for letting us know. a court in italy has begun hearing the closing arguments in the appeal by amanada knox against her conviction for the studentof british didn meredith kercher. familymeredith kercher's spoke out. >> amanada knox back in court today as her appeal reached its final stages. her family is increasingly confident that they have won the argument that she and her former boyfriend, raffaele sollecito, are innocent. the italian prosecutors insisted that there was still a lot of e

. >>> and nasa unveils the space plan for the future. a look at the few rockets and when they're expected to take flight. >>> and are you having an allergy attack? experts share with us the trees that cause sufferers the most trouble. >>> i'm rob mayeda in for chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. at this hour we're seeing a big cooldown around the bay area. only 71 in san jose and the fog machine is on already in san francisco. cool afternoon around the peninsula. temperatures are a in your oseve forecast. a look at that when we come right back. da >>> lots of trash talk today about the south bay, particularly san jose's guadalupe river. the group save the bay named the banks of the guadalupe to its annual list of the bay area's worst trash spots. in places the river is quite scenic, but it's also a frequent campsite for the homeless and a magnet for litter. here's the rest of the list. pulgas creek in san carlos, damon slough in oakland, mission creek and baxter creek. the annual coastal cleanup is this saturday. >>> a new federal report r

nasa's budget. this rocket will now allow us to get out of low earth orbit, assemble components, heavy components that ultimately will take us out into the heavens, exploring in ways that we never have even started to design. remember, 40 years ago, we went to the moon. that was quite an accomplishment, but the moon is about 250,000 miles from earth. now, with rockets like these, we are going to go far, far out into the heavens, to explore the origins of the universe, to explore things that sometimes we have never even dreamed of, as we fulfill our destiny as a peoples who are explorers and adventurers by nature. mr. president, i yield the floor and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: recognized. mrs. hagan: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hagan: mr. president, i rise today to join my colleagues in imploring congress to provide needed assistance to our families, our communities, an

. >> la nasa no descarta que algunos hayan caÍdo en tierra firme. >> videos y fotÓgrafos aficionados como Éste en minnesota registraron lo que podrÍa ser la lluvia de los 26 pedazos del viejo satÉlite que finalmente entrÓ a la atmósfera sobre el acero pacÍfico al occidente de estados unidos. estas imÁgenes una tomadas en hawai y Éstas en san antonio, lentejas y. la esperada caÍda de la chatarra espaciosa produjo entre las 11:23 de la noche del viernes y la 1:09 de la madrugada del sÁbado. la nasa no ha recibido noticias de que alguien haya resultado herido y cree que es muy posible que los pedazos que cayeron en el ocÉano pero no descarta tampoco que algunos hayan podido caer en tierra. este satÉlite de 6 t y media es el mÁs grande de la nasa que haya caÍdo sobre el planeta sin control desde 1979. >> y a largo plazo dicen los artÍsticos,1 preocupaciÓn de la nasa serÁ el prÓximo regresa la tierra sin control hastainternacional, de vida que ya no cuenta con un transbordador para controlar el operativo de defensa. >> eso serÁ en el 2020. gracias vilma. vamos otras cos

it's the biggest nasa spacecraft to fall from the sky in 32 years. scientists say since water covers most of the earth, they expect a splash rather than a crash. the odds of debris hitting any one person on the planet are very slim, just one in 21 trillion n . in london, tina kraus, cbs 5. >> i like those odds. >> too many pieces. >> could ruin your day. >>> a frozen threat. why an ice cream flavor has a number of mothers upset. >>> plus, a beautiful day for a swim in the bay. the message that these firefighters are sending with every stroke. >>> temperatures expected to be hot for one more day. but big changes for the weekend. we will have details coming up next. ♪ [ female announcer ] there's no need to produce foods yourself to be sure they're 100% natural. ♪ now there's open nature foods from safeway. no preservatives, no artificial anything. all within budget. a wide choice of natural foods that meet your high standards. ♪ open nature. only at safeway. >>> and they're off. 57 brave souls leapt into the cold waters of san francisco bay this

because nasa just is incapable i think really doing anything great anymore i am receipt of some more cop cooperation between china and russia russia sold china some space suits and some other space here i why isn't the u.s. part of this collaboration that's a good question and i think they would be great if they were i think you are really like the idea of of seeing cooperation between governments on this i don't know why we can't do it i mean you know the russians aren't going to be invading listen neither are the chinese so i don't see what all the fear is about i think would be a great thing i mean and. the russians have a very capable scientists and so to the chinese i mean i. i think this could be a really good thing to really promote cooperation but whether or not people want to do it that's you know that's something beyond me i'm not a politician. well ian thank you for joining us that was william anderson an associate professor at frostburg university. so as the economy saw first politicians are in full on raising sway and this is only the beginning just as president obama to

though officials with nasa are in fact trying to confirm that, trying to pinpoint the exact location that the satellite went down. and this of course got a lot of news over the last couple of days. and the u.s. air force telling us that it entered the earth's atmosphere before 1 a.m. eastern time, somewhere over the pacific ocean. and officials had predicted that it would break up more than 20 pieces and the biggest surviving chunk, a little more than 300 pounds. and now, scientists have not confirmed, whether this video is of the actual satellite, but a news camera capturing pictures of what looks like shooting stars over southern california last night. and the whole side of nasa equipment presume meting to earth scares you, experts say it's not that uncommon. >> well, you know, we've had, over the last 40-some years or 50 years, whatever it is, and putting things into space, we've had a lot of debris come down, sometimes 100 objects a year or more, but we've had only one person brushed on the shoulder by a light piece of debris in all of that time. >> in fact, your chances of being

that's the same job nasa is trying to do. there's a good chance it will never know what happens to any of them. we'll be lucky if we know where each and every one of these go. surviving parts are made of titanium, stainless steel that allow some of these to make it through the atmosphere. total mass 1,173 pounds. if you look at the original mass it, over 12,000 pounds, which gives you an idea of how much of this is going to disintegrate before it makes contact with the earth's surface. there's a chance too much could have landed over parts of the pacific ocean. we had video from hawaii which showed a contrail in the sky almost like you'd see from an airliner. we had video that came in from minnesota. the video from the minnesota from an i-reporter is interesting. they see streaks popping up. could that be it? could be. could it be something else? absolutely. so again, you never know. >> what else could that be? >> it could be pixie dust. sent in from kris rakowski. we have au kinds of things in the atmosphere. do i think it m

but nasa is not sure where the six ton sat lie. re-entered the atmosphere somewhere over the pacific ocean. >> and russian prime minister vladimir putin, he is saying he will compete in the elections next march. a victory could possibly extend his rule until 2024. >> heather: new reports from the front lines in libya. hundreds of revolutionary fighters pushing in the hometown of moammar khadafy. from forces to the loyal to leader and in tripoli a fire at a warehouse. this was the scene, sending up huge plumes of black smoke. no word on the cause for the fire but putting nerves on edge. david piper is streaming live from tripoli with the very latest. >> reporter: yes, there was initial concerns about those explosions and fire which brought the large cloud of black smoke right across tripoli but it became apparent it was a fire at military storage warehouse on the harbor. there was heavy fighting today in the hometown of khouy khadafy that is 350 miles up the mediterranean coast from tripoli. the provisional government fighters are t

>> we'll see something. >> and nasa's best estimate is that it will return friday. and says odds of being hit by debris are one in one in 3200. personal odds improve to one in 22 trillion. and there are 20,000 other pieces of space junk still up there. >> oh, thanks, wayne. we appreciate it. >> yes. well. >> hope it ends up in water somewhere. and coming up, running for cover, a typhoon strikes an area in japan still recovering from a tsunami. >> started digging around in my hair, just touching it and digging. >> her big hair causing big problems. she tried to get through airport security. >> and long term care insurance is important. should you wait to buy it? i'll answer your questions. next. >> and later on at bc 7 news at 5:00 singer tony ben yet changes his tune, his change of heart onpx >>> michael finney is here now answering your question autos long term care insurance seems to be on people's minds. >> we hear about it so let's talk about it. this question from facebook. tricia says i heard you should put off buying long term care insurance. is that true? i'

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nasa tells cbs 5 the bright spot of light was above l.a. at 7:45 this evening. a dead research satellite spins as it begins a fall from orbit that was started on a fiery plunge to earth. >> we have main engines start. >> the rocket science precision could not accurately predict where it would come down. >> it's going to burn up and drop some debris some place on the planet. >> most of its 6-tons will burn up in reentry, but 1200 pounds of debris is expected to make it down. >> since we have been putting things into space, we've had one person brushed on the shoulder and that's the only one we know of that has been touched by a piece of reentering debris. >> considering how much stuff is up there, that's a good record. >> well, there's 22,000 objects that nasa tracks alone. things bigger than a softball. things that they can track. smaller objects, you know, there may be millions. >> and all of it will fall back to earth, but nasa plans for the end times of satellites and ways to minimize the risk to earth. >> targeting an empty place on earth, specifically, or p

scientists at nasa say it will crash land on earth next weekend. the trouble is, it is traveling so fast that they will not know where it will come down until two hours beforehand. right now, the target area covers much of the earth's surface. >> this encompasses the entire populated world. there is a small percent above and below those latitudes. the vast majority live within those latitudes. >> the threat of satellites crashing down on earth is making the headlines. >> nasa says that a massive head light is heading straight for earth. >> -- nasa says that a massive satellite is heading straight for the earth. >> much of it will burn up but some components will fall. decommissioned in 2005, the satellite is the latest case of space junk falling back to earth. the skylab space station came down and it showered parts across western australia. the u.s. government was builds to clean up the debris. -- was billed to clean up the debris. >> not just an asset. that brings today's show to an end. -- not just nasa. you can get constant updates on our websi

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a defunct nasa satellite is out of control and is plunging about towards earth but u.s. artists have been left guessing as to where the space junk we get more details now that is pretty or all of you were drawn of life here either peter good to see you as you tell us more about the satellite and whether it poses any danger to us any chance that it could just pluck our heads in some major urban areas well look at that in just a moment what the satellite is though is the. atmosphere research satellite known as you a.r.a.'s it weighs it weighs well around six thousand kilograms and it's been traveling round and round the earth for the best part of two decades and now it's a due to come back down to earth with a bit of a bump now nasa is saying that should any of the debris from this satellite lands in inhabited places that it's not dangerous however some russian experts are suggesting that. the fuel used on board this satellite could pose a danger to the health of the people it lands next to. which would of experts call this type of satellite an orbital truly because you ne

nasa now plans for the end times of its newer satellites. thinking of things falling in the sky, we have -- falling from the sky, we have a chance of rain? >> yes. you might be seeing sprinkles. drizzles at the coastline with plenty of fog out there. you can't even see the top in this shot. and a cool weekend in stored as well. i'll tell you what those temperatures will be like when we come back. >>> and also the oakland a's on the silver screen. brad pitt's new film hits theaters this weekend. still to coast, jonah hills will be chatting with us as well. >>> i'm allen martin in sacramento. who qualifies for cal benefits. a closer look coming up. ,,,,,, we spend a lot of time together. well mainly in traffic. i'm serious. we've been together, what, a super long time. true. and at first it was all business, you know, i'd take him here, i'd take him there. everywhere. and over the years, we've really bonded. sure. why else would you always buy me chevron with techron? 'cause we need gas. i think it's more than that. i think that you care about

for nasa, nasa has quite a detailed oversight role and then the faa as well has an oversight role. so, you know, if you're comfortable flying commercial aircraft, then you should be pretty comfortable with what we're doing in commercial rocketry. >> and yet with nasa, there's obviously any number of project events that occurred where human life was lost. and in the sense, obviously, they're using private companies as partners. but essentially it was under the nasa and government brand. essentially flying the american flag, can a company like yours sustain a loss like that as a private enterprise? would people be willing to give you as much dare i say space in the event of a tragedy that they would be their own government? >> yeah. i think -- i think that will be okay. i mean, if you look at other modes of transport, aircraft, boats, cars -- if you're familiar with cars, there's loss of life in any mode of transport. and if one set of standards -- you couldn't have loss of life, then there would be no transport. you wouldn't be allowed to walk. so you have to allow for some amount o

according to nasa, 1 in 3,200. so it's unlikely, yes, but frankly, not as unlikely as i'd like. so, to put that into perspective, consider this. your odds of being involved in a car accident sometime in the next two years -- 1 in 5,244. your odds of being hit by lightning? 1 in 10,000 during your lifetime. and your odds of walking into a place like this and buying a winning lottery ticket? 1 in 146.1 million. even though there are 20,000 pieces of space junk in orbit right now, nasa points out there's only one confirmed case of somebody actually being hit by it. >> on the left shoulder, it hit me right back here. and it rolled down to the ground and fell. >> reporter: lottie williams was out power walking in tulsa, oklahoma, in 1997. she wasn't hurt, just disappointed that it was only a piece of rocket insulation. >> i was thinking i had something celestial, you know? >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, new york. >>> coming up, the fight to keep this little guy and other endangered animals like him alive. [ daniel ] my name is daniel northcutt. [ jennifer ] and i'm jennifer north

nasa is working with the strategic command for confirmation. john alston is at the space and science center for us. john? >> carolyn, what nasa is saying, if it came down when they think it came down between 8:45 and 9:45 tonight it most likely landed somewhere in canada. they are watching it on computer websites that were uh -- apparently slowed down by so many people wanting to witness the final moments of the spacecraft. >> reporter: at the science center they were celebrating the discovery of nep few -- neptune so many years ago. >> it has passed to the south of us. it is heading in the northeast direction. >> reporter: 8:00 p.m., astronomers noticed the satellite was over north america on one of its last lapse over earth. >> over time the orbit slowly daw grades.-- degrades. the best example of something like that where we prevented it is the hubble. >> the window of when and where it would crash kept on changing as the day went on. >> solar activity has been causing the earth's atmosphere to pump up and then settle down. that changes the